Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-26

rex TACOMA.

enc vsaee staying The TAde-Fha
Memorial ssEEi the Tspae Of she
T1me-Mr. Nfxsn Takem II.
He has been found-she one man VIII
reaists the impulse and sway Of popu-
lar sentiment. and il ID the pfopel
thing no doubt 20 give him q hearing
de ~ Postmaster Sampson. He saw
be has not taken any blue pills az yet
and he don't propose ts take any Of thai
kind Of medicine. The Northern Pa
cifia Railroad Company" be says, Evil
without doubt do for this city all 10 has
promised. II has all the room is wants
here n0w-mnKe than 10 uses-and be
lteve that everything will be In shaps
here when it Is needed. As for all thai
taik about elevators here, that IL folly
Elevators are not used In this part Of
the country. a. every one kuowa-oE
ought 20 know. wheat IL shipped 10
sacks. Farmers will have to be edn-
Gated up 70 the use Of elevators befors
they become Q necessity here. Il ID
true the city has done too much waiting
on the railroad, I think, aBd should
rustic for itself. Its location for trade
10 fully equal 10 that OF Seattle, and a.
for Discrimination in the matter Of car
rying the little Bit Of freight that goes
from Portland 70 Seattle. that ia not q
fraction 70 what comes around by
steamer from San Francisco, and the
discrimination in that 10 in our favor.
Hence ! cannot see the
"oAUsE OF COMPLAINT"
When / first came here in Au-
gust, lS64"-said e. W. Taylor, ''they
took me ever there on the bluff and
showed me where the immense shors
we're 10 be built. They spread q map
before me showing the bay that was to
be dredged to depth sufficient for the
heaviest vessels; the map showed a big
ship being towed up there south Of the
railroad tracks. where yet nothing can
pass through; big elevator was pic
tured there near the b0ashouse, and
work upen all this was to be began
within sixty days from that time. I
stopped and have been here ever siaee,
bus the work has not yet been begun.
It won't be beguB, either, until the peo-
pie here assert themselves. So long as
this city can be looked upon by the
railroad company as perfectly docile-
content 10 allow the company to come
and 20 and take or leave iast what il
wtshes-so long can they wait. This
declarations of principles. as il we're,
that has been going on of late suggests
somethlnR of the experience Of Oak
land. Cal. Do you suppose the Central
Pacific would ever have gone in there
and built the magnificent pier, whaEves
depots, etc., il they had not done 30 in
self defence? The people waited until
they got tired, and then reused up and
invited other roads there. and the Gen.
trail Pacific Immediately found it
TO ITS IsTKREsr
To go beyond rather than fulfn its
promises. So il would be here"
ut was all very well 80 long as the
Cascade Division seemed q legitimate
and hard to-be-oveFcome obstacle"
said listener, "but now that that has
been practically surmoanted, il is time
for the company to do something or
give the reason why. II the company
had stated what these conservatives
state for it, that it will have all she
necessary facilities in place by the time
they are decided. and iast what those
facilities are and when work will be be-
gun upon them, ID would have given
some satisfaction ct least, although il
speaks poorly for all the grand things
that were 70 be done, to say they can be
built in sixty days"
THE Northern Pacific" said Mr..
sampson, "quit making promises and
building air castles when Mr.. Willard
went eut, end il must be remembered
that il was Willard that drew the pretty
pictures of elevators and other useless
things to be built here. IL should also
be remembered that the Northern Paei-
fie Company knows its business and its
purposes better than we do"
"A good deal better" said T. L.
Nixon. there's the rub, though We can
sness a. what they are after pretty we'll.
We should make it our business TO
bring another railroad here, and not be
wholly dependent for an outlet upon
one corporation. Whenever that idea
has been suggested hitherto there has
been raised the cry Of
DoN'rl
Il would be disloysl 10 tue Northern Pa
cifc. The idea Of the Northern Pacific
being loyal to any people or plaza be-
yond the point OF its financial interest
would be funny spectacle, would Il
IL would dad greater interest 10 hurry
ing here aud bidding fer the business
10 be gotten here when the people 90
tar assert themselves as 10 invite q com
petitoE. Il would respect the town the
more fer doing 50. !"
little incident, not Of interest grew
ont OF the Published interview with Mr..
nixon, yesterday. He vas reported rs
saying he could not get out even on the
property be owned here. w. j. Thomp-
500, President OF the Merchants Ma
tiOaal Bank and Of the Executive Com
mittee OF she Chamber Of OommeFce,
vent 10 Mr.. Nixon and offered to pay
him the purchase money of all his pFsp-
erty In this city. together With the inter
est on tbs same for sbe length of time
be had held 10, aud also all the taxes
paid thereon. Mr.. Nixon refused the
ofer, saying. Of course be could not
accept it. That he would not consider
that IS getting even ~ IL had cost him
much mora thaR that 20 hold the prop
erty for the fourteen years that be has
owned tha most Of 10. The Executive
Committee Of the Chamber of Com
meFce held meeting on Thursday even
lag sud
PREPARED An ADDRESS,
Watch vas ssnf through the Associated
Press, saying: "fhe dispatch from Sc
attle pabiished in the OregoHiaa Of the
81 instant, beaded 'Taeoma Despond-
ent.' and stating that . memorial had
been adopted by the Executive CON-
mittee Of she Taeema Chamber Of Com
meFca setting forth the dependence Of
Tacoma on the Northern Pacific Rail
road Oompany's favor and sskiDR 9 de
clarafioa Of intentions. il entirely
false. " etc, etc. Mr.. Thompson, WHO
signsd this address, says ID vas directed
IS the Associated Press agent, not At the
Posi- ISTKIL Of wnieh LITTER be
has no complaint 70 make, as Us reports
bare been fair and honest, representing
the sentiments 81 p Spls and drawiSg
20 eoEolGsIons therefrom-
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